> I spend most of my time at work in an Angular app and it sucks. The compile times suck, the developer experience sucks and it's not getting better, it's only getting worse.
> I wound up using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages (templated pages) and it's been a breath of fresh air - I haven't enjoyed myself this much writing web software in ages because I can get stuff done in very short order.
Okay, so I've never worked in Angular, so I can't really speak (maybe there are Angular killer features that justifies using Angular?), but... If it looks like it'll be simpler in ASP.NET pages, go for it!
Everybody likes lighter pages, if your app is simple * doesn't need to be a heavy Angular SPA, you shouldn't be using them.
> I wound up using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages (templated pages) and it's been a breath of fresh air - I haven't enjoyed myself this much writing web software in ages because I can get stuff done in very short order.
Okay, so I've never worked in Angular, so I can't really speak (maybe there are Angular killer features that justifies using Angular?), but... If it looks like it'll be simpler in ASP.NET pages, go for it!
Everybody likes lighter pages, if your app is simple * doesn't need to be a heavy Angular SPA, you shouldn't be using them.